First of all, I’ve just finished reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami - so if anyone wants to discuss it, you can email me at plantay at proton dot me. I have mixed feelings about it, because usually I really don’t like magical realism (e.g. One Hundred Years of Solitude - maybe it’s time to read it again), but for some reason I find it captivating in Murakami’s novels. Still, there are a lot of controversial things in it, but overall I enjoyed it a lot.

Anyway, I was kinda busy this week - my job situation resolved pretty quickly, and now I have a lot of things to do again. I’m happy with it right now (though the workload is going to be a lot more than I planned), but we’ll see how it goes. Other than that, I started playing Dark Souls last week for the first time, and it also takes quite a lot of time. By chance, co-op mode was released around the same time, so my friend and I decided to play it together - it’s been very fun!

Since it’s the end of the month, I’d like to share some results from my logging system. It worked better than I expected, though not across all activities - it seems like my brain just prioritized the most important ones and let the rest slip. Here it is:

• 17/20 | working
• 07/12 | studying
• 20/20 | running & workouts (how?..)
• 10/12 | reading
• 14/08 | socialization
• 04/08 | website (posts & emails, basically)
• 03/12 | meditation
• 00/08 | traffic rules (fuck.)

All in all, I’m pretty happy about it - especially the physical activity. I’m shocked that I trained five times a week all month, and it felt absolutely fine and not overwhelming, as I thought it would. My body feels great. I’m now running 5km in 40 minutes within a 130–150 bpm heart rate range, which is amazing, and my workout routine also feels much easier (I mean the technique is better - I’m still dying every time, haha). Two things I want to be more active with next month are reading and meditation, since I watched a lot of stuff again this month - movies, YouTube, etc. I’m a little disappointed, but it’s okay.

I’ve changed the list of activities for May - maybe it’ll be easier to concentrate on the important ones. For example, I removed “socialization” because it turns out I meet people a lot more often than I thought. I also removed “traffic rules”, because fuck it - I hate legal language, and I want to throw up every time I try to read it. Also, with all the new work, I won’t have the time or willpower to deal with it. I still need to get a driver’s license at some point, but not now.

Another thing I got into last week is moss - I don’t know why, but I like it a lot. Maybe it’s just me getting older and finding new weird hobbies, idk. The whole week was cloudy and cold, everyone stayed home, so I just walked through the streets and collected a few different kinds of moss. I cleaned them and planted them in a temporary container, but I already bought three different containers to make my first terrariums - a glass jar with a lid, a spherical one with a small opening at the top, and a wide short one. I want to see the difference, because everyone seems to use closed containers to keep moisture, but I like open ones more - so this will be my little experiment. I also ordered some sphagnum moss and coconut peat to mix with the soil I usually use, so I’ll post the results with pictures next week (or maybe the week after).